Re: Redhat 7 and PgSQL

Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes:

> > %preupgrade
> > pg_dumpall >somewhere

> 1) You don't know that postgresql is running. It probably isn't.

Then start it.

> 2) You don't know that you have the diskspace to do that.

Changing from one storage format to another always requires 2x space
(although a text dump is usually smaller than the internal
representation).  And you're not going to get the storage format to not
ever change again. :-)

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